Improvement in seed-planter



JOHN c. MINEinor eRoTo'n,` o'oNNEcTIcUT.

Letters Patent No. 91,655, dated June 22, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT N SEED-PLANTER.

The Schedule referred toin these Letters Patent and making .pa't of thesame.

-To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, `JOHN B. Minen, of Groton, in the county of NewLondon, and State of Connecticut, have invented a 'new and usefulImprovement in Seed- Planters; and'I do hereby declare that thefollowing Ais a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which willenable others skilled ,in the art to make and use the same, referencebeinghad to the .accompanying drawings, forming part ofthisspeciiication. This invent-ion relates to a new and usefulimprovement in machines for planting corn and other seeds, and consistsin the construction andv arrangement of parts as hereinafter described.

ln the accompanying plate of 'drawings- Figure 1 represents a verticallongitudinal section of iig. 2,\through the line x x.

' Figure 2 is a bottom view.

Similar letters of reference `indicate correspondingr parts.

This machine is supported on two wheels, A A. B representsV the axle.Gis a platform on 4the axle. D I) representhoppers in which the corn orseed to be planted is placed.

Eis a transverse shaft, passing over the platform, having pulleys on itsends,and is revolved by belts F,

which pass around the pulleys and around the inner ends oi" thewheel-hubs, asseen in the drawing.

The shaft E passes directly under the hoppers, at which points there'arerolls G G, which have recesses or cavities in their peripheries forreceiving from the hoppers the requisite quantity of seed to be droppedfor each hill.

1n this example of my invention there are two of these seed-receptacles,as seen in iig. 1, so that they receive seed and drop it twice in eachrevolution.

H H represent tubular plow-teeth, which are attached to the under sideof the platform, directly b eneath the rolls G, so that they receive theseed from the cavities inthe rolls, and conduct it to the ground, orintothe furrows l made by theplowshares or teeth H H l represents theapertures through the teeth. (See iig. 1.)

J J represent wings, which are attached to the heels of theplow-teeth H.They are thin, broad plates, inelining backfrom their points ofintersection with the plow-teeth, and are placed at an angle ofaboutfortytive degrees with the track or line ot' travel, so that the furrowmade by the teeth, into which the seed is dropped, is entirely filled,and the seed covered as fast as dropped.

A roller or'rollers may be attached to the 'back end- A and their hubs,and the pulleys on the ends of the shaft E.

Instead ofthe short 'rolls G G, there may be a continuous roll orcylinder on the shaft E, with longitudinal channels or grooves therein,and with a single continuoushopper above foi-delivering' the seed, andthereby` sowing the Vseed broadcast.

K represents the tongue.

This is confined between two uprights L.

M is a lever, which is connected with the tongue by means of Vtwo strapsn, one on each side, and which has its fulcrmn at o on the stands orupright's L..

The tongue K is attached near the middle of the platform by apivot-connection.

'lhe eect of drawing down the lever from the position seen in thedrawing will be to depress the forward end of the plat-form whenV thetongue is prevented from rising, which it would be when the team isattached, and consequently .raising the plow-teeth from the ground. Thiswould be done in going to or from the iield.

ground. is performed by thus depressing the lever fn.

N represents a binder or tghtener for the belts F F, which consists oftwo stands N,lpivoted to each 4side of the machine, connected by atransverse bar,

which is connected with the level' m by the rod 0.

0u each of the uprights there is a pulley, as-seenv at N, over whichthe-belts pass.

With the lever min an upright position as'seen, the belts'are 'tightenedas the stands N are brought upri dit.

When the lever is brought down for raising the plowteeth from theground, the stands N are thrown back from an upright position, and thebelts are loosened, thus stopping the motion of the shaft E and thedropping ot' the grain. 4

1 0 the end oftheaxle B, a marker may be attached ior guiding the driverin arranging the rows.

It will be seen that as the driver stands upon the platform, with thelever m within his reach, he has the machine perfectly under hiscontrol. He can raise the plow-teeth and' stop the dropping of seed athis pleasure.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Incombination with a seed-planter, the wings J, constructed and arrangedsubstantially as and for' the purposes` described.

` 2. Thel combination of the pivoted lever m, connecting-rod 0, .andpivoted roller-arms N with 4the tongue K, plat-form (l, belt F, andseed-droppers G, all arranged as described, whereby the seed-droppersare thrown in orout of operation, and the plows raised or loweredsimultaneously, substantially as described for the purpose specitied..

JOHN B. MINER.

Witnesses Y i FRANK BLocKLnY ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

Another operation, beside raising the teeth from the

